Shit you just learned (probably from the internet.)

I like the propeller.
Real ones are a) FUCKING MASSIVE and b) fucking expensive.
Enjoy, and ignore these cunts.
Unless I agree with them.
Then FFS get your shit together, man!

This.

Should have been a meat man pt:8

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In 1770, at the age of 10 William Beckford inherited £1 million and several plantations in Jamaica. His income was £100,000 a year, an immense sum in the 18th century. He became obsessed with building: large buildings with towers were his specialty.

Fonthill Abbey
In 1794 he decided to build a Gothic abbey at his Fonthill Estate in Wiltshire. He was so impatient that he couldn’t wait for proper foundations to be dug: the abbey was built on foundations suitable for a much smaller building. 500 men were involved and he plied them with great quantities of beer, in the hope that they would work faster. After six years the magnificent abbey was complete with a spire 300 feet high. A gale blew up and the spire snapped in two. Beckford gave orders to start on a new tower immediately. Seven years later, the new tower was finished. Beckford lived in the abbey with just one servant, a Spanish dwarf but every day his dining table was laid for 12 and the cooks ordered to prepare food for twelve. Beckford had vowed he would eat his Christmas dinner in his new abbey’s kitchen. He did, but as soon as he had finished the meal, the kitchen collapsed! Little remains of Fonthill Abbey today.

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Hooray

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Would prefer a jaunty angle … thought plumbers were good at that

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That’s sparkies I think. (And some brickies IME.)

VB

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If you unravelled all the DNA from your body (2 meters per cell x 37 trillion cells), and tied it all together, it would stretch from Earth to beyond the orbit of Pluto.

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What if you did big knots though ?

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saw some skull and crossbones on a few aisle graves at a local Priory. Enquired as I thought they were a strange coat of arms, cool, but strange.

Turns out that Crusader knights who were killed in the holy land would have their skull and thighbones repatriated for a christian burial at home. It became a symbol associated with death and was used on some graves up to the 1700s as a symbol of the inevitability of death.

Also used by pirates as a symbol of ferocity.

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Imbecile

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harsh …

But fair. :+1:

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If the dunces cap fits…:slightly_smiling_face::slightly_smiling_face:

What have I done to deserve this tirade ?

“Bullies”, he shouts forlornly, or was it “Cunts, every last mother fucking one of ya” ?

Meh! Man the fuck up…

Fairly accurate there though.

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Haven’t you got something needs charcoaling ?

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His mum should have said…:kissing_heart:

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Well struck Sir!